Some notes on the singular manifold method: several manifolds and constraints (Q4495987)

From the author's presentation: The singular manifold method was introduced as a natural generalization of the Painlevé test to PDEs as necessary condition for their integrability. Part of the original theory does not demand any assumption on the type of singularities and can be successfully applied for ``non-integrable'' PDEs and ODEs. To expand its practically both for integrable and non-integrable cases a number of modifications have been made as, for example, the use of Weierstrass or elliptic functions, the Painlevé-Darboux transformation, the double singular methods and various ways for introducing judiciously chosen terms. The main goal of the paper is to show that all the above approaches are closely related and are of the same unified algebraic nature and to figure out how these ideas can be developed further. The approach is illustrated by six examples with ODEs, some of them from physical applications.